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Williamson County Review Appeal
Archives offers view into lives of WWII
vets
By KAREN EMERSON-McPEAK / Review Appeal Staff
Reporter
History won’t repeat itself, nor will it be remembered if
someone doesn’t take the time to write it down.
That’s exactly what Louis Lynch and her small staff at the
Williamson County Archives do. Not only do they write, but
with the help of Stan Tyson, they videotape interviews
with World War II veterans.
http://reviewappeal.midsouthnews.com/news.ez?viewStory=22287
The Age
Hepburn's biographer attacks sale
May 31, 2004
Objects from tennis shorts to diaries kept by the late screen legend
are to go under the hammer, writes Charles Laurence in New York.
Katharine Hepburn's close friend and chosen biographer has attacked a
decision by Sotheby's to auction many of the most intimate objects from
the film star's estate, including clothing, address books and diaries.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/30/1085855434578.html
The Mercury News
Posted on Sun, May. 30, 2004
visual arts
HISTORY IN A DRAWER
By Jack Fischer
Mercury News
Sometimes -- probably more than we realize -- the telling of history is at the mercy of nothing more than bad filing.
Certainly that has been the case with the U.S. government's best-known visual archive, the Depression-era photographs of the Dust Bowl and the years that followed it.
For decades, no one knew that the vast and beloved swath of America's pictorial history included color photographs. Thanks to the decision of an unknown bureaucrat, who couldn't manage to store color transparencies with black and white negatives of a different shape, the color work was boxed with a different archive at the Library of Congress and was virtually lost. An academic rediscovered the cache in 1979, but somehow it languished largely unpublished and unseen for another 25 years.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/8797874.htm?1c
Houston Chronicle
May 28, 2004, 12:38PM
Where the music lives on, and on
Reissuers driven by love and profit
By RANDY LEWIS
Los Angeles Times
HOLLYWOOD -- Bill Inglot has worked at Rhino
Records for more than two decades, long enough to
know that two years from now he'll probably be up to
his ears in Monkees.
"In 2006, it will be the 40th anniversary of when the
Monkees debuted and it'll be my 20th anniversary of
working on Monkees reissues," says the 47-year-old
producer, whose Burbank-based employer wrote the
rules for marketing nuggets from the pop-music gold
mines. "I joke that I'll be reissuing my reissues."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/music/jump/2595996
Asia computer weekly
Insured against paper
trails and wrong calls
Jorina Choy, May 31 2004
James Kang, CIO of Singapore insurance cooperative NTUC Income,
was often caught between a rock and a hard place whenever one of his
engineers detected a problem in their company’s IT infrastructure.
Should he or should he not activate disaster-recovery (DR) operation,
but risk losing tonnes of precious data in the process?
http://www.asiacomputerweekly.com/acw_ViewArt.cfm?Magid=1&Artid=23856&Catid=2&subcat=16
Providence Journal
05.30.2004 2:39
P.M.
Official says public records law
doesn't have teeth
The Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) -
Attorney General Thomas Reilly's office has failed to enforce the
state's public records law, allowing municipalities to withhold
information from citizens, a top state administrator
claims.
http://www.projo.com/ap/ne/1085942362.htm
The Paris News
AG: E-mail must be disclosed
By Phillip Hamilton
The Paris News
Published May 30, 2004
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ruled Thursday that Paris
Independent School District must release a one-page e-mail
Superintendent Paul Trull sent Feb. 25 to school trustees.
Trull on Friday hand delivered the e-mail to The Paris News,
which under the Texas Public Information Act had requested the
district produce “all e-mails between and among the
superintendent and board members from May 1, 2003, to May
12, 2004.”